Group Assignment - Students are submitting a individual draft then their group paper but the individual draft is not showing the correct student's submission.

The individual draft paper submitted by a student in the group is not the correct student submission in Speedgrader. It is another in their groupset. Why would this be occurring? The instructor is frustrated that this is not working.

Resolution to instructor:

Determined that when an assignment is assigned to a group set, the assignments being submitted are not showing under the correct student. However, in the group homepage, I can see the correct submissions in the Files section of the group site.

**NOTE: I researched Canvas guides "Q&A" and were unable to determine why this is occurring.

As a workaround: She is going to create an individual draft assignment based on the group assignment "Ch3: Harrison Case ASD" DUE TO the fact that the individual submissions were not appearing correctly in Speedgrader they are being stripped out.

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From instructor:

I have a group assignment for doing a case-study.Students should be submitting an individual draft and then a group paper.

Problem: For some, this is working fine, for others, when they submit, it is kicking out the other person's draft. I am confused as to what is going on and need urgent help.

Hi admin_klbecke1 - This is actually by design, though for newer Canvas users it can indeed be lesson in frustration until one learns that this is how group assignments work, so I feel your pain! I think every Canvas administrator has had a similar series of questions come up in the past.

In group assignments, one submission will count for the entire group. Learn more aboutevaluating group work.

Basically, the first person who submits a group assignment is doing so on behalf of the entire group. It does not matter whether or not the instructor enables the checkbox "Assign grades to each student individually," as that really only makes a difference with assigning grades and whether one can leave comments individually or not in SpeedGrader. The submission that one sees currently in SpeedGrader is, essentially, the latest submission.

Your idea of using the Submissions folder in the group page was brilliant; I wish I had known that trick myself earlier on in my Canvas days!

But to directly address the issue at hand, the best way to handle a draft submission is just to create a regular assignment where every individual student uploads their own submission, if that's what the instructor wants to see. But the bottom line regarding group work is I always tell instructors if they want to see individual submissions, do NOT use a group assignment.

You may find the following series of CanvasLIVE presentations useful, even though they are over a year old. They are an excellent overview of the many ways Canvas uses the word "groups":